In fairness to Kieran Crowley, emotions were running high when he stepped into the press conference room in the bowels of the Stadio Olimpico.
The Italy coach felt more than a little aggrieved by some of the refereeing decisions that had gone against him, so the question of whether Italy could feasibly progress much further while playing such cavalier rugby rankled him a little.
"Italy are where they are because of the way they have played over the last 10 years. If we keep doing the same thing we have always done, we will always be in the same place," he said.
